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Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps
- milchek 10mo ago"Medium Setting!" - https://frinkiac.com/gif/S03E22/319309/322862/ https://frinkiac.com/gif/S03E22/319309/322862/ The GIF generator works well. Nice work! You could probably delete some of the frames that have credits shown over them - since you have plenty of material already anyway, for example: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S17E16/137763 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S17E16/137763 or https://frinkiac.com/caption/S16E09/162162 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S16E09/162162
- monkpit 10mo agoFrinkiac has been around for at least a decade :)
- reaperhulk 10mo agoWe launched Feb 2, 2016 so almost a decade since then! Of course, we ran it for just ourselves a bit longer so it’s been slightly over a decade at this point.
- hemmert 10mo agoCongratulations, really nice! I wasn’t aware of this.
- MBCook 10mo agoHas it been that long? I remember having a ton of fun with it when it first launched. Great job.
- deanputney 10mo agoHave you written about the tech behind Frinkiac and Morbotron at all? I'm super curious how it works (although I'm sure I could guess), and also how it might be generalized for other shows. Hosting infrastructure and cost to run would be interesting too!
- jasongill 10mo agoI've always wished the GIF generator could embed the subtitle like the single frame "make a meme" feature can, but it does work surprisingly well
- ChrisKnott 10mo agoYou can do this [0] just press Add Meme after Make GIF. [0] https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E08/ZzAEDYhlQxZ5l2A8E5aowS1M82I=.gif https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E08/ZzAEDYhlQxZ5l2A8E5aowS1M82...
- jasongill 10mo agodoh!
- dan-g 10mo agoSee also: https://morbotron.com/ https://morbotron.com/ for Futurama!
- Jordan-117 10mo agoAnd https://masterofallscience.com/ https://masterofallscience.com/ for Rick and Morty. edit: Though it seems to be somewhat outdated.
- evan_ 10mo agoand https://funcooker.fun/ https://funcooker.fun/ for 30 Rock. (I think the Frinkiac people used to run a different 30 Rock page but it went away at some point)
- thejazzman 10mo agohttps://amphetamem.es/ https://amphetamem.es/ For everything else!
- TZubiri 10mo agoYou know, I tried to look for source code or a downloadable database, to play with a local fork, but I haven't found much.
- balls187 10mo agohttps://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E16/277226 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E16/277226 LOL
- TYPE_FASTER 10mo agommmmm cromulent
- redrix 10mo agoYou’ve really embiggened this post with your cromulent comment.
- Zee2 10mo agoSeems like the search is based only on the transcript/dialogue - not an image embedding. Would be super cool to actually use some CLIP/embedding search on these for a more effective fuzzy lookup.
- adzm 10mo agoHow would someone go about doing this, just curious?
- wincy 10mo agoYou’d just run every picture through CLIP, essentially you run an image generator backwards. Instead of text to image like most end users use when using something like stable diffusion (been awhile since I’ve done this), it can do the exact opposite and generate tokens (just words in this case) to describe the input image. I’d guess famous characters like Bart and Marge and other Simpsons characters would likely be known by the tokenizer so it’d be pretty easy. So then you’d be able to guess. Feel free to correct me on small details if anyone has this more fresh in their mind but I’m roughly correct here.
- petercooper 10mo agoAgreed. If you search for Barney, say, none of the top ten picture him at all and is mostly people speaking to or about him. Even running them through a vision LLM for a list of keywords would yield better results than the subtitles, I suspect.
- redrix 10mo agoI actually prefer it this way. When I use Frinkiac, I already know the quote (or at least a few words from it), and I simply want a still or short gif of it (with a customized caption typically). YMMV of course.
- aizk 10mo agoVery cool. Maybe add some image embeddings for additional metadata for the search results?
- martythemaniak 10mo agoFor enjoyers of classic simpsons, I highly recommend /r/simpsonsshitposting, a delightful blend classic simpsons, absurdist/surrealist/dadaist art, multilayered inside jokes and often NSFW content. It could not exist without The Frinkiac.
- uza80 10mo agoMy primary news source.
- UncleSlacky 10mo agoAlso /r/The_Leftorium...
- mparnisari 10mo agoI love this website. I wish I could search it in Spanish. I grew up watching the Simpsons in Spanish and I sometimes struggle to find the right clip because I don't know the exact translation
- j45 10mo agoVery cool. "Max Power" - https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAEc=.gif https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE... Can't find other clips by quote. Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is important.
- j45 10mo ago"Max Power" - https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAEc=.gif https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE... Can't find other clips by quote. Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is important. It would be great to add the meme mode to the gif rendering so it was captioned.
- acomjean 10mo agoWe used this Max Power quote at work. https://frinkiac.com/caption/S10E13/786535 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S10E13/786535
- greekrich92 10mo agoPossibly the best and most important website on the internet
- wyldfire 10mo ago> Inflammable means flammable? > What a country! https://frinkiac.com/caption/S12E18/437896 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S12E18/437896
- paulsmith 10mo agoI'm glad you shared this because, in my head this Dr. Nick quote is so canonical it must be from the original golden 8 seasons, so it's nice to be reminded there are occasionally good things after! ;^)
- wyldfire 10mo ago> No one who speaks German can be an evil man. https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/566865 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/566865
- wyldfire 10mo ago"Bake him away, toys" https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/1285083 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/1285083
- horsellama 10mo agoshameless plug to something similar (albeit less polished) I’ve been hobbying on for Fantozzi and PeepShow (still wip) https://asdfasdf.fyi https://asdfasdf.fyi
- sefrost 10mo agoFYI - https://peepshow.gifglobe.com/ https://peepshow.gifglobe.com/
- ChrisKnott 10mo agoThis is literally my favourite website, I use it several times a week. I do wish the search was a bit better; it could show the matching quote below the matching frame, and it doesn’t seem to support phrase queries. A more advanced feature would be searching by speaking character too.
- JeremyHerrman 10mo agoshameless plug for a similar site which a friend built, but for dozens of TV shows and movies: https://amphetamem.es/ https://amphetamem.es/
- AmbroseBierce 10mo agoNo South park hum? But Rick and Morty is there so it's not a policy against foul-mouthed cartoons; Smiling friends is also missing but perhaps it's too unknown or too recent to be there.
- thejazzman 10mo agoPre-AI it’s tedious to find/fix/verify the subtitles — and there are a lot of episodes of South Park. Literally the reason why it’s not there :|
- AmbroseBierce 10mo agoIf you sort the top 50 best rated episodes of all time on IMDb you would already have 90% or the quotes people search for, so I would focus on your those if you ever try to take a stab at it.
- GlumWoodpecker 10mo agoSurprised to find this on the front page today, I posted this four days ago (hovering over the post timestamp confirms this), yet the timestamp says "11 hours ago". Weird.
- zote 10mo agoYour post was chosen for the second-chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- GlumWoodpecker 10mo agoThanks for the clarification!
- kotaKat 10mo agosometimes you'll also get an email from hn as well letting you know you got a second chance submission ;) SUBJECT "Your submission <name> will be re-upped"
- OisinMoran 10mo agoSome funny related cultural trivia is that often Americans find the hardest thing about integrating into Irish culture is how much we reference the Simpsons in day to day life.
- quotemstr 10mo agoThe span of Simpsons meme literacy is identical to the span of western civilization.
- OisinMoran 10mo agoSpan? Yes. Density? Not as much. I only say it as I've been surprised on several occasions by American friends living here voicing the same thing. I think it may have been in part due to some fortuitous scheduling making it so that literally every Irish person above a certain age has seen a heap of episodes. That and possibly that there wasn't much else on.
- dalyons 10mo agoSame as Australia, if you’re a millennial/genx. Only 4 tv channels and one of them was showing endless simpsons repeats in the after school time slot. Almost everyone knows s1-11 references. Kids these days with their on demand streaming don’t understand the monoculture :)
- redrix 10mo agoAbsolutely! Australian Millennial year. Grew up watching S2-8 every night over dinner on Channel 10 (IIRC), and I sometimes think I could communicate exclusively in Simpsons quotes from that era.
- ares623 10mo agoTIL i'm part Irish
- dirtybirdnj 10mo agoThe gif maker workflow is fantastic, amazing how smooth it was an the output is clean and crisp. Beautiful UX I practically tripped over this feature without even thinking about it and it worked great.
- ThrowawayTestr 10mo agoI prefer comb.io, it has full clips
- redrix 10mo agoIMO Frinkiac is hard to beat if you just want to caption a Simpsons image (or gif) and share it directly; particularly with a few words modified to fit the situation. comb.io is good for those occasions where you need the actual clip with audio. Just my own opinion of course!
- reaperhulk 10mo agoMaybe for our tenth anniversary we should update the codebase and finish some features we haven’t touched in a decade…
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- redrix 10mo agoThank you for putting together and maintaining Frinkiac! I use Frinkiac multiple times a week to share memes with friends. We all grew up watching S1-8 weeknights over dinner and can quote those episodes almost flawlessly. Would love to read some blog posts on how the site works, anecdotes from 10 years of maintaining it, legal troubles faced (etc)!
- davnicwil 10mo agoA friend of mine uses frinkiac all the time, I wasn't sure where he was sourcing all these quotes/memes from until he told me about it a few months ago. Awesome to see you're on HN. I'll take the opportunity to say thanks for this service! We're of that cohort who grew up on the simpsons and it formed a large part (a majority?) of our humour. Brings joy and laughs to my friend group at least!
- philsnow 10mo agoIs the reason there isn't a perfect show/movie-to-meme site with All the features and All the shows, that such a site would attract notice from rightsholders and then implode from fending off spurious legal complaints?
- brigham 10mo agoPlayphrase is pretty good https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=spurious&language=en https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=spurious&language=en
- echo42null 10mo agocool; https://frinkiac.com/video/S05E02/tcqDQyGgz-EeKltdDceypD3NHAU=.gif https://frinkiac.com/video/S05E02/tcqDQyGgz-EeKltdDceypD3NHA...
- seg_lol 10mo ago> I have wasted my life https://frinkiac.com/caption/S09E04/211961 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S09E04/211961
- Theodores 10mo agoThis really works! I wanted the scene where Homer is pulling an all nighter and orders Marge to put the coffee pot on. Search terms 'coffee pot' and hey presto: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S15E22/1142350 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S15E22/1142350
- hatmanstack 10mo agoHad no idea this existed and IMHO what the internet was made for. Well played sir. https://frinkiac.com/video/S12E09/5fI0bxc31gXMaJNjLhbIeyRQP6M=.gif https://frinkiac.com/video/S12E09/5fI0bxc31gXMaJNjLhbIeyRQP6...
- kristianp 10mo agoMONEY CAN BE EXCHANGED FOR GOODS AND SERVICES https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/145628 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/145628 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/147696 https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E08/147696
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